Self-lighting cigar or cigarette.



No. 674.406. Patenjted May 2|, I901.

P. GUAIjAGNINI.

SELF LIGHTING CIGAR 0B GIGABET TE.

(Application filed Mar. 23, 1900.)

(No Mbdel.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

POMPEO GUADAGNINI,

on LONDON, ENGLAND.

SELF-LIGHTING CIGAR OR CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming pait of Letters Patent No. 674,406, dated May 21,1901.

Application filed March 23, 1900. Serial No. 9,921. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, POMPEO GUADAGNINI,

a citizen of ltaly residing at 10 Dacres road, Forest Hill, London,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Self-Lighting Cigars or Cigarettes; and I do hereby declare the following tobe afull,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same. Myinvention relates to the manufacture of cigars andcigarettes; and it consists in the combination, with a cigar orcigarette, of a device whereby the same may be lighted without the useof matches.

In the accompanying drawing the figure is an elevation of a cigar orcigarette provided with my lighting device.

In practicing my invention I prepare an adhesive substan ce-such, forinstance, as used in so-called wind or blazing matches which, when dry,possesses the quality of burning slowly and cannot be extinguished by ablast of wind, and a small head of some substance ignitible by friction.These heads may be made of the same substance as applied to the heads ofordinary'or of the so-called safety-matches and are affixed by means ofa slowly-burning adhesive substance to a cigar or cigarette a on or nearthe lighting-end thereof, as shown in the drawing. Next I prepare a cap(designated by letter 0 in the drawing) having a frictional surface onits inside. This cap a is set upon the end of the cigar, so as to coverthe head d and so that in removing it the frictional surface provided onits inside rubs against the head (1, thereby causing it to ignite. Theburning of the head causes the substance I), by which the tip is appliedto the cigar, to burn, and in this manner the cigar itself is lighted.

If the head at is made of such substance as used on the heads of socalled safetymatches, then the rubbing-surface on the inside of the capmust be prepared of such material as used for preparing therubbing-surface on the boxes for safety-matches.

I claim as my invention A device for lighting cigars or cigarettes,consisting of a layer of slowly-burning adhesive substance, applied tothe lighting end of a cigar or cigarette, a tip of -a substance, ig-

nitible by friction, set on the slowly-burning

